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I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.
The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.
I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.
Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.
We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.
The biggest mistakes I've ever made are when I've been rushed. If I'm overwhelmed, I slow down. It's more effective.
It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon.
I think the older you get the harder it is to [lose] probably. Your metabolism slows down, whatever, but I'm a pretty active person.
If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.
The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.
Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.
Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Only if you make it through them do you get to say ‘It all happened so fast.
I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.
But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.